The Arizona Type Specimen

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The Arizona Type Specimen is a five color, split-page, spiral-bound showcase of ABC Arizona.

Designed by Elias Hanzer, ABC Arizona is the first ever sans-to-serif Variable Font that packages its five looks — Serif, Text, Mix, Flare, and Sans—into one single file. This specimen celebrates Arizona’s countless combinations through its split structure. You can mix and match the half pages to discover the typeface family’s vast system. Just like monster picture books for kids.

The Arizona Type Specimen

Design: Hanzer Liccini
Typeface: ABC Arizona by Elias Hanzer
Illustrations: Célestin Krier
Essay: “Tools and Shapes” by Ferdinand Ulrich
Publisher: Dinamo Editions
Dimensions: 290 × 230 mm
Production: Offset printed on 580g arena white smooth (cover) and 250g arena white smooth paper (inside)
Printing: Druckhaus Sportflieger, Berlin
Price: € 28.–
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STUCK Magazine

Posted on by Tessa Breuer

In today’s ever digitized and often deceptive media landscape, there is an increasing need for a counterbalance: for an independent, high-gloss, low-circulation print magazine; one that uses art as an alternative communication channel to inform readers about contemporary social concerns that are usually ignored by mainstream media.

One and a half years later, after the Berlin-based STUCK Magazine launched its first-ever pilot print issue (000), now the second edition (001)—with the title subworld episodes—is launched: Since then the team has learned about new methods of journalistic, editorial, and design production: “We picked up new skills and broadened our network of friends and like-minded individuals. This improvement can certainly be seen in our latest issue. However, we’re still sticking to our original way of doing things—staying true to our mission, our style of curation, and our aesthetics.”

For the new issue STUCK has also teamed up with other independent creative projects—such as Solo Show, Siilk Gallery, and Guerrilla Bizarre—that contribute well to the ethos and energy of the magazine. Individual artists that come from various disciplines also have their place in the magazine—to adorn the outcome with their individual backgrounds, visions, and opinions. Artists and topics featured:

  • Tyler Cala Williams, When words fail, alternatives speak
  • Ingrato, We are all part of a global freak show
  • Lazygawd, An ode to nerds and passionate obsessives
  • Siilk Gallery, freedom of expression
  • BodySnatchers, the technosphere and its absurd impacts
  • Malte Bartsch, exploring electronic utopias
  • Solo Show, gothic pastoral
  • Guerrilla Bizarre feat. ISAbella, transformative future of underground clubbing

The new issue is divided into two episodes—modes of expression and imagined futures—that leads the reader through a subworld of eight impressive chapters that inspire by disclosing alternate modes of expression and stirring the imagination about worlds that are beyond ours, closing the book with a tasteful poem. Topics that are covered include the complexity and challenges of self-expression in today’s world, about the impact of hyper-used technologies and on future civilizations, about the transformative development of subcultures, and much more.

STUCK Magazine 

Price: € 25.–
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Typeface of the Month: Marlide Display

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This Typeface of the Month: Marlide Display is a flamboyant and vibrant typeface evocative of a transitional roman or Latin design with elegant roundly bracketed serifs and a considerable thick to thin contrast. The letterforms are condensed and embrace both, curves and pointed elements that create an interlocking rhythm with a lively texture. The letter inspiration goes back to a late nineteenth century type form, in turn derived from inscriptions of Roman Antiquity and the neo-Renaissance period. During the era of La Belle Époque and Art Nouveau, numerous variations of Latins with embellished details, such as letters and tails curling inward were in high demand. Traditionally only a few historic Latins had sloping companions, and with varying stroke contrast ranged in use from jobbing and headline to text faces. During the late 1970s and with phototype tools, typefaces in this genre became popular again for a few years before the onset of desktop publishing. Editorial and ad typographic tendencies during this era and in the US, manifested themselves in sleekness and lavish forms.

Marlide Display aims to exercise restraint by going all out on curves yet attempting to control excessiveness and amplification. It is a type that shines in large letter sizes with a suitable weight range, figures for titling and text integration in larger size type, unique arrow designs and a small set of charming ornaments for frames and repeat-patters. Most apt in display, integrated in applications such as logotypes, headlines and many more to make any design stand out and prominently convey messages for print and screen alike.

Typeface of the Month: Marlide Display

Foundry: Kontour
Designer: Sibylle Hagmann 
Release: 2022
File Formats: OTF, TTF, WOFF + WOFF2, VARIABLE
Weights: Light, Regular, Medium, Bold, Extra Bold, Heavy
Price: $ 50.– per style / $ 200.– per family
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PARCOURS 22|23

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PARCOURS 22|23 invites you on behalf of all graduates to the exhibition of bachelor’s theses from the fields of illustration, communication, media, and product design as well as master’s theses from February 3rd to February 5th, 2023.

Parcours is a tribute to the graduates and their creativity. The exhibited bachelor’s and master’s theses put the complexity of social issues in a unique spotlight and at the same time direct our attention to the essentials. The results offer clever and creative approaches to solutions—sometimes clear and straightforward, sometimes intuitive, and lively.

Parcours is a concentrated load of creative energy—extremely rich in ideas, contrasts, and experiences. They are looking forward to welcoming all visitors to this special moment.

PARCOURS 22|23

When? 
Vernissage: Friday, February 3rd, 7:30 p.m. until 10 p.m.
Party: Friday, February 3rd, starting at 11 p.m.
Exhibition: Saturday, February 4th, 11 a.m. until 7 p.m.
Sunday, February 5th, 11 a.m. until 7 p.m.

Where?
Fachhochschule Münster
MSD / Münster School of Design
Leonardo-Campus 6
48149 Münster

Entrance is free

Cyberfeminism Index

Posted on by Tessa Breuer

In Cyberfeminism Index, hackers, scholars, artists, and activists of all regions, races, and sexual orientations consider how humans might reconstruct themselves by way of technology. When learning about internet history, we are taught to focus on engineering, the military-industrial complex and the grandfathers who created the architecture and protocol, but the internet is not only a network of cables, servers, and computers. It is an environment that shapes and is shaped by its inhabitants and their use.

The creation and use of the Cyberfeminism Index is a social and political act. It takes the name cyberfeminism as an umbrella, complicates it and pushes it into plain sight. Edited by designer, professor, and researcher Mindy Seu, it includes more than 1,000 short entries of radical techno-critical activism in a variety of media, including excerpts from academic articles and scholarly texts; descriptions of hackerspaces, digital rights activist groups, bio-hacktivism; and depictions of feminist net art and new media art.

Both a vital introduction for laypeople and a robust resource guide for educators, Cyberfeminism Index—an anti-canon, of sorts—celebrates the multiplicity of practices that fall under this imperfect categorization and makes visible cyberfeminism’s long-ignored origins and its expansive legacy.

Cyberfeminism Index

Design: Laura Coombs
Publisher: Inventory Press
Distribution: ARTBOOK I D.A.P.
Release: December 2022
Format: 6.75 × 9.5 in
Volume: 608 pages
Illustrations: 80
ISBN: 978-1-941753-51-4
Price: $ 34.95
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Werkschau School of Design Pforzheim

Posted on by Birgit Meyer

Glow in the Dark is the motto of this winter’s semester show Werkschau School of Design Pforzheim. The design students bring light into the dark season: a glow and radiance, an impetus not to lose faith in difficult times. Because creative work can be a ray of hope and inspiration at the same time. And there will be plenty of that for everyone at the Werkschau!

A warm invitation to the Werkschau on February 10th and 11th, 2023: six Bachelor’s and three Master’s programs, art, design, food, drink, music, and three fashion shows! Open from 11 a.m. until 8 p.m.

Werkschau School of Design Pforzheim

When?
February 10th & 11th, 2023
From 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Where?
Fakultät für Gestaltung—School of Design
Holzgartenstraße 36
75175 Pforzheim

More information here!
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Graphic Stories Vol09

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This year’s Graphic Stories comes fresh and renewed, as it harbors the Power of Youth and brings new activities with it! The new program is subversive as the lectures will take place on Sunday, March 19th, while the workshops will precede and will take place on Friday, March 17th and Saturday, March 18th, 2023. More specifically, the three-day program hosts twelve [12] distinguished designers from Germany, England, Greece, and Cyprus. It includes nine lectures, six creative workshops, one animation film screening, one international poster exhibition with the participation of designers from Cyprus and abroad and one interactive installation for the public accompanied by youth groups with dance and music.

The 9th International Conference on Visual Communication, Graphic Stories, will take place during three days—March 17th to 19th, in Nicosia, on the topic of The Power of Youth. Young people are the most important and dynamic part of the population in every country. They are the driving force behind every change, social, economic, and cultural. Young people have the curiosity, the idealism, the enthusiasm, the courage, the strength, and the will to change the world. They are not just a part of the general population but the most important wealth of this world. They are the present and the future of humanity, and the hope for building a better future with more justice, more peace, more freedom, more flora, more sustainability, and more inclusivity.

Graphic Stories—Among the Best Festivals in Europe, by EFA
The Conference on Graphic Design & Visual Communication, Graphic Stories was chosen by the European Festivals Association (EFA) as one of the best festivals in Europe and was awarded the Europe’s quality stamp, EFFE Label, for the period 2022–2023. Furthermore, the conference was also awarded for innovation and ingenuity, with the special Badge of Invention, and received the special distinction of Remarkable Arts Festival for 2021, which ranks it among the top European events related to arts and culture.

Who is it for?
Graphic Stories is the only established, independent, annual, institutional conference in the field of visual communication and visual arts and is addressed to all creatives in the field of visual communication, applied and visual arts. It is for professionals, students or pupils, graphic designers, web designers, UX/UI designers, illustrators, photographers, animators, 2D/3D designers, printmakers, creative agencies, advertisers, marketers, their partners and anyone interested in learning about the profession of visual communication designers. Graphic Stories is the link between the creative, the commercial, and business worlds.

Graphic Stories Vol09

When?
March 17th–19th, 2023

Where?
European University,
Nicosia
Cyprus

Program: further information can be found here.
Talks, Workshops, Exhibition

The conference will be held in person, while there will be live streaming for online viewing of the lectures. It is clarified that all the workshops are exclusively held in person.

The scholarships & prizes of the poster contest are offered by: European University, Parachute Typefoundry
Media Sponsors: Politis Newspaper, Politis Radio 107.6FM, Parathyro, ΡΙΚ, Ergodotisi
With the support of: Cultural Services of the Ministry of Education and Culture
Under the Auspices of: Office of the Commissioner of the Citizen, Municipality of Nicosia

More information can be found here. 
Buy tickets here! (Tickets available at early bird prices until 19/02)

What Should I Say—About Seoul

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How could visiting Seoul be described in a way that allows someone else to feel like they are right there? What to say? What perspectives to choose?

What Should I Say—About Seoul takes the reader on a path less traveled: The work and daily-life of Korean designers; but not just as a spectator. The book gives a glimpse into South Korean society that is not so common after all: Some of the insights into the Seoul work experience appear grim at places, colored by the ongoing pandemic that forced people to cut down on social interactions.

The experiences of Korean-German designers are also included in the book, and as a result, one could see that there is really no reason to think of Germany as a country that “has it all figured out.” The modern workplace can be a very mixed bag at times and bad working conditions plague the creative industry worldwide. Speaking about these experiences allows us to feel less isolated and work towards change—so it is not all doom and gloom.

What Should I Say—About Seoul

Publisher: Slanted Publishers
Editorial & artistic lead: Omid Fröhlich, Youjin Kim, David Wiesner
Photography: Omid Fröhlich
Layout & Editing: David Wiesner
Publishing Direction: Lars Harmsen, Julia Kahl
Format: 16.5 × 23.7 cm
Volume: 192 pages
Language: English
Workmanship: Softcover, thread-stiching, full color
ISBN: 978-3-948440-45-9
Price: € 19.–
Release: January 2023
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On the occasion of the publication a multi-media exhibition with partly unpublished material and exciting insights of the authors takes place at Noplace, Cologne (DE). Join us at the opening on Friday, Feb. 10th, 4 p.m., and on February 11th, 2023 starting at 1 p.m. Next to the additional insight on the interviewees the exhibition also gives you the chance to get to know the writers of the book.

Exhibition

When?
February 10th, 2023, starting at 4 p.m.
February 11th, 2023, starting at 1 p.m.

Where?
Noplace
Follerstr. 82
50676 Cologne
Germany

The Future of Gestaltung

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To mark the end of its 30th anniversary year, the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe will be hosting The Future of Gestaltung (The Future of Design) symposium on February 9th and 10th, 2023. Designed as an open discussion format, in addition to the members and guests of the HfG, the city’s public should also actively participate and enrich the numerous offerings in the form of roundtables, presentations, debates or pop-up events with their contributions and thought experiments.

In keeping with the title, the focus will be on the future of the university and its contribution to society. The aim is to question today’s artistic and design practice and to sketch out scenarios of collaboration and coexistence. The focus will be on the term Gestaltung (Design), which was used a good 100 years ago at German-speaking art colleges to emphasize the holistic claim of their own work. Today, under political slogans such as Die Zukunft gestalten (Shaping the Future), it is once again in vogue, since it affects all areas of society, from education and the economy to administration, health care, and the environment. What usually remains unclear, however, is who is actually in a position to shape this future.

Society is confronted with a variety of social, political, ecological, and economic challenges. The symposium will focus on the role of the pioneering possibilities of art and design in this context, the special role of a university in this context and how the HfG can make use of its unique combination of art, theory, and design in this situation.

These and other questions are addressed in contributions such as The Death of Shopping Malls. The Future of Social Meeting Places in Public Space, The Future of Urban Design, The Value of Making and the Making of Values, or Gender, Design, and Their Influence on Teaching.

The Future of Gestaltung

When?
February 9th, 2023, from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.
February 10th, 2023, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., panel discussions from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Where?
Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe
Lorenzstr. 15
76135 Karlsruhe

More information and the full program schedule can be found here!

HEX

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In 2016, MIT Professor Neri Oxman published an article in which she stated the link between the following disciples: science, design, engineering and art. This so-called creative energy was coined by Professor Oxman as “The Krebs Cycle of Creativity.” The underlying idea of it states that knowledge can’t be produced or created but rather that the aforementioned disciplines can be intertwined.

In this way, Professor Oxman attempts to create a genealogy of the interrelationship between science, design, engineering an art in which one discipline can transform the other, and in which a single entity or project can reside in multiple domains.

The aforementioned genealogy was the main inspiration source of HEX—an edible and immersive experience. HEX attempts to stage a symbiosis out of the realm of these disciplines as to provide an insight on future foods speculation.

This multidisciplinary project aims to augment pleasure digitally and to reflect on how our current eating patterns may have an effect on what we will possibly eat in the future. HEX marries different media fields such as 3D-Printing and 3D-Animation, Augmented Reality, and Food Design. This both immersive and edible experience is divided into six immersive moments which are personified by so-called edibles which were designed based on nature patterns and food forecasts by British food futurologist Dr. Morgaine Gaye.

HEX—an edible and immersive experience was mainly influenced by the founding fathers of speculative design Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby (Parsons School of Design) and Professor Neri Oxman (MIT Media Lab). This speculative project had as a main goal the stimulation of debates that question our behaviour patterns and the future societies.

The six different edibles made out of Agar-Agar (Seaweed) range from Wakame to Crickets and can be scanned with a self-made iOS Augmented Reality App. The App allows testers understand the food forecasts by proving them with properties, nutritional information and 3D visualizations of them.

TAU Spektrum 4

Posted on by Lukas Haider

TAU Spektrum 4 is the fourth compilation by the Hamburg—based record label TAU which is driven to forward-thinking electronic music from a range of rising artists, founded by the Adana Twins.

Lukas Haider is in charge of the Art Direction since the label was founded. The Spektrum series is characterized by unconventional release solutions in terms of the chosen media.

A magazine with special holographic paper, a double audio tape and a vinyl-set with transparent sleeve were already released in this special series. For number four a limited collectors edition was invented featuring 16 trading cards of each artist plus an individual download code for the compilation. Every contributing artist got 3D-scanned and furthermore placed in a surrealistic CGI environment matching the individual song’s mood to create individual artworks.

In addition to the physical appearance of the trading cards, a bunch of animations were made to bring the cards also alive in digital space meant to be share on all social media platforms throughout the release.

item Magazin #4

Posted on by Sally Paschmann

item Magazin #4 (Independent platform for the Transfer of Educational impulses via a student Magazine) is the student magazine of the Department of Design and Culture at HTW Berlin.

In the fourth issue, the students explored the topic of strip, thereby breaking barriers, questioning privilege, and addressing subjects such as body positivity, diversity, sex work, and social norms.

Is love for sale or is noncommittal sex the new ideal? Are people whose bodies don’t conform to the norm included in fantasies and behaviors of the majority? Why, even in 2022, are feelings still interpreted as obstacles and femininity as weakness? Questions like these were tackled in this issue and exciting people, such as Ivana Vladislava, Annabelle Ferlings, Yanis Berrewaerts and Fritzi Krafczyk, shared their thoughts with us.

In addition, 19 projects by students from the Department of Design and Culture are featured in this years issue and provide an interesting insight into the recent semesters at university.

The magazine was founded, conceived, designed, and introduced by Sally Paschmann and is intended to provide insights into the debates, thoughts, impulses, and projects that arise during the course of studies. It provides a platform for students to introduce themselves and their projects and to consider their work in a socially relevant context.

item Magazin #4

Publisher: HTW Berlin, Department of Design and Culture
Founding & Supervision: Sally Paschmann
Editing: Coco Nova Estèle Schätzke, Emilia Moro, Eli Zaza Moysiopoulou, Dylan Demtröder, Aylin Eryilmaz, Luzie Drawe
Design: Al Ayaasha Medford, Alexandra Trinkl, Camille Baumann, Ella MacWilliams, Florencia Ramirez, Mani Pham Bui
Release: October 2022
Format: 21 × 27.5 cm
Volume: 176 pages
Edition: 400 copies
Bookbinding, Workmanship: o”-set printing with open thread-stitching and detachable transparent cover
Language: German / English
ISSN: 2629-6691
Price: € 18.–
Buy: Motto Books, Walther König, Bücherbogen, pro qm and Rosa Wolf (Berlin) or online via Instagram 

KH Type

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Kurppa Hosk has launched its own type foundry: KH Type. Typography has always been intrinsically linked to the core of Kurppa Hosk’s work, and with KH Type they aim to celebrate their typographic heritage by making their independently designed typefaces available to license.

The type catalog currently consists of four typefaces. KH Teka is a modern grotesque with a rigid and mechanical approach. It’s highly versatile and covers a wide range of characters and opentype features. KH Giga is an exaggerated serif intended for large-scale use. The lengthy serifs even bleed together in the heavier weights, creating interesting word pictures. KH Shutter is an expressive monospaced display typeface inspired by the characteristics of the Hebrew alphabet. KH Interference a versatile monospaced display based on a 45° grid, a monospaced typeface designed for display use. It’s inspired by primitive letterforms, like type on receipts or pixelated type on old screens. Licensing and free trial versions are available at KH Type’s newly released website.

KH Type

Typefaces: KH Teka, KH Giga, KH Shutter, KH Interference
More information can be found on the website
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200 years of Munich University of Applied Sciences

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On the occasion of its 50th and 200th anniversaries, Munich University of Applied Sciences is publishing a two-volume history publication. The first volume, now being published, deals with the history of the university’s predecessor institutions, which were shaped by social and political upheavals. The design concept for the publication was created and implemented at the Munich University of Applied Sciences’ Faculty of Design.

The publication’s design concept was developed at HM’s Faculty of Design under the supervision of Prof. Xuyen Dam, professor in the Communication Design program. In the nearly 600-page publication, the history of HM is divided into six chapters, which are differentiated from each other in terms of design by giving each one its own visuality through different color and image concepts. A strict system in the design elements creates a visual unity throughout the book: consistent font sizes, significantly placed year numbers, strongly gridded photographs at the beginning and end of chapters, as well as indentations and outlines in the texts act as visual brackets.

200 years of Munich University of Applied Sciences

Publisher: August Dreesbach Verlag
Publication: The History of Munich University of Applied Sciences. Volume 1: The Predecessor Institutions
Editor: Prof. Dr. Martin Leitner, Munich University of Applied Sciences
Committee: Martin Leitner, Xuyen Dam, Ralph-Miklas Dobler, Christina Kaufmann, Felix Kolbeck, Katina Warendorf
Project management: Dr. Marcus Müller-Ostermaier, Munich University of Applied Sciences
Design: Prof. Xuyen Dam, Friederike Wagner, Lennart Seis, Nicolas Pakai, Felix Schultz, Philipp Kaser. Faculty of Design, Munich University of Applied Sciences
Photos publication: Frederic Hermann
Content: Neumann + Kamp Historical Projects / Christiane Taddigs-Hirsch, Munich University of Applied Sciences
Release: 2022
Printing: Longo AG, Bolzano
Typeface: Klim Type Foundry—Untitled
Paper: 130 g/m Fly extra white 1.2 VOL
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Fungal

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In 2022, Hato press invited Raphaël Bastide to do a publication part of the zine series. In a wish to revive the “fan” part of fanzine, Raphaël Bastide decided to pay tribute to Wikipedia, a surviving, precious, unequaled place on the open WWW. The 16 pages riso print zine shows the encyclopedia’s interface as a post-human vestige, an artifact invaded by biomorphic figures and spreading typography. Through the pages of the zine, the reader discovers how the graphic elements are spreading like mycelium, creating an ornamental graphic network. A live web version of this page exist and you can visit it here.

Raphaël Bastide approached his longtime friend and Velvetyne collaborator Jérémy Landes to give life to his idea of a molding typeface. They designed the characters of the zine so they can grow and spread thanks to their variable design. Fungal is a fork of DejaVu Sans, a libre font, popular on Linux systems. To view all authors involved in the creation of Deja Vu Sans, head here. The hyphæ of the mycelium growing from each glyphs can be controlled in their length (the Grow axis) and in their thickness (the Thickness axis) allowing to fine tune the density of the rhizome growing on the page and the legibility of the text in the same move. Get the zine from Hato Press.

Fungal

Foundry: Velvetyne
Type Designer: Jérémy Landes, Raphaël Bastide
Release: 2022
License: Bitstream Vera Fonts Copyright
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12th annual Typography Meeting

Posted on by Juliane Lipp

In December of 22 we had the honor of being invited to attend and to speak at the 12th annual Typography Meeting (“Encontro de Tipografia”) in Portugal. This time it took place in Covilhã at the University of Beira Interior and stood under the theme “Matter of Type.” It is organized by the Faculty of Arts and Letters and the Arts Research Group of LabCom—Communication and Arts.

The Typography Meeting is an annual international scientific event based in Portugal that gathers researchers, practitioners, pedagogues, students, and industry partners. Their goal is to bring together leading individuals and projects in the Typographic panorama to: disseminate research and technical knowledge; foster learning, inspiration, and critical thinking; and contribute to the discussion and the development of ideas in Typography and Typeface Design.

The four conference of the 12th annual Typography Meeting days were filled with a lot of workshops, talks, panels, and keynotes with inspiring and groundbreaking topics under the broader theme of typography and design. From traditional analog calligraphy to kinetic typography and artificial intelligence, hybrid forms of design and typography, back to letter-carving in stone—the conference penetrates the topic in an intense and exciting way. Paired with the highly passionate and interested people attending the conference and coming from all over the world, the atmosphere left a lasting and inspiring impression!

Thank you again for having us and we are very excited to see what topics will be discussed at the conference next year!

Werkschau Design & Architecture 22/23

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At the end of the winter term 2022/23, the graduates of the Design and Architecture departments of the Peter Behrens School of Arts at the University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf will present their projects during the Werkschau Design & Architecture 22/23.

Around 200 young designers and architects specializing in Architecture, Interior Design and Civic Design as well as Communication Design, Exhibition Design, New Craft Object Design and Retail Design are looking forward to your visit.

You can take a look at the graduation projects here.

What good advice should you give young designers and architects to take home with them on their journey through life? Beyond the ubiquitous cultural pessimism, all potential wisdom can be found somewhere within the information garbage of our civilization. Semiotic fragments and constellations that can be combined and reassembled in many different ways. You can even find happiness. But where do you start? Where to look?

The inspiration for the Werkschau design is Marjory, the ‘all-knowing, all-seeing Trash Heap’ from the 80s children’s series The Fraggles. Marjory—a living compost heap with magical abilities and alternate genders—serves as an oracle to the Fraggles. There are also two rat-like sidekicks: Gunge and Philo, who act as representatives and interpreters of the wisdom of the Trash Heap. Occasionally they decorate Marjory with jewellery made from garbage. If the two rats say “The Trash Heap has spoken!,” questioning time for petitioners is over.

Werkschau Design & Architecture 22/23

When?
January 27th, 10 a.m.–4 p.m.
January 28th, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.

Where?
Hochschule Düsseldorf
Peter Behrens School of Arts
Building 6
Münsterstraße 156
40476 Düsseldorf

More information here
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Design: Lorena Beste, Mats Dübbers, Anna Gangluff, Lynn Ruberg, Joelle Schonhoff und Chiara Toteda / Code: Stefan Völker / Supervision: Prof. Holger Jacobs / Public Relations: Eric Fritsch und Stephanie Muscat-Bruhn

Lagois Photo Competition 2023

Posted on by Tessa Breuer

Climate justice concerns us all. We all know that we cannot treat our planet carelessly. But how can we lead a socially and environmentally responsible life? Protect the environment and manage resources sustainably? Only by changing something together in order to enable sustainable living conditions for inhabitants of the Global South and future generations. Lagois Photo Competition 2023 is looking for outstanding photographic works on the subject of Sustainable Living.

The competition is worth € 5,000.–. They are looking for photo reports about people or groups who live climate justice. Small and big heroes, who are fearlessly committed to protecting the environment against global warming, taking responsibility, and driving social change.

Is the future green and the ecology blue? How can we save our Earth? Will artificial intelligence help us do that? We want to make the causes, consequences, and options for action for climate justice visible—be it the cultivation of regional food, the expansion of urban green spaces, or the production of sustainable products. Other topics include sustainable mobility, social justice, nature conservation, water, biodiversity, and upcycling.

Please note that only applicants residing in Germany can be awarded BUT the best photos of all applicants—no matter where they reside—will be presented in a traveling exhibition throughout Germany as well as in a book of photographs which will additionally be published on the subject.

The photo competition comprises two categories and addresses both professional photographers as well as youngsters aged 14 to 27 years. Closing date for entries is March 26th, 2023.

Furthermore, they award a promotion prize for a project that is not yet realized or completed. Closing date for the promotion prize is January 15th, 2023.

The best photos will be presented in a traveling exhibition throughout Germany, and a book of photographs will additionally be published on the subject.

The Regional Bishop for Munich and Upper Bavaria, Christian Kopp, is the patron of the competition. Cooperation partners are the Bavarian Protestant Youth (ejb), Mission One World, Oikocredit Germany, the environmental department of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria, the diakonia Bavaria, fair trade ConSozial, and the printing house Pigture.

Lagois Photo Competition has been offered every second year since 2008 by Evangelischer Presseverband für Bayern e.V., the Bavarian Protestant media association. The prize was named after the Bavarian priest Martin Lagois (1912–1997) who shaped Protestant media communication due to his efforts in media work.

Lagois Photo Competition 2023

Entry deadline: March 26th, 2023
Promotion prize deadline: January 15th, 2023
Conditions for participation can be found here

TDC69 Call for Entries

Posted on by Tessa Breuer

The Type Directors Club, the world’s leading typography organization and part of The One Club for Creativity, announces significant expansion in accepted work and a host of additional changes to its annual awards with the opening of TDC69 Annual Competition call for entries.

Previously divided into two competitions, one each for Communications Design and Typeface Design, the program is now a single competition under this year’s umbrella of TDC69, consisting of three disciplines: Type Design, Typography, and, for the first time, Lettering.

The new dedicated discipline for Lettering is for work where the letters were created or modified. This includes contemporary lettering, traditional calligraphy, sign painting, wordmarks and custom logos, digital or analog distortions, eccentric display typefaces, and more. This new discipline has its own dedicated jury, made up of some of the world’s leading lettering practitioners and experts.

The Type Design discipline is for entries showcasing the design of typefaces. New this year, it also allows for entries of any thematically applicable code or software, such as software for creating or generating type.

The third discipline, Typography, is the broadest one. It encompasses any design or creation that uses type, lettering, or written language as a significant element, and is an expansion of what was previously the TDC Communications Design discipline. Typography includes graphic design, UI/UX, environmental design or architecture with typographic elements, film, animation and motion design, social media campaigns, new media, and anything else where typography is used.

To be eligible, work must have been produced or published in the 2022 calendar year. This year’s awards competitions continues TDC’s commitment to expanding the level of diversity and representation in its juries. A full lust of this year’s juries by discipline can be found here.

TDC69 Call for Entries

Regular deadline: January 17th, 2023
Final deadline: March 3rd, 2023
Enter here!

The Faces Behind Typefaces

Posted on by Alisa Kusti

Readymag, a design tool for creating outstanding websites, in collaboration with Type Directors Club presents The Faces Behind Typefaces, a selection of insightful conversations about typographers who have made extraordinary contributions to the creative field—Paula Scher, Paul Rand, Gerard Unger, Ed Benguiat, Rubén Fontana, Emigre, and Adrian Frutiger.

Designed in the form of an editorial, The Faces Behind Typefaces coincides with the 75th anniversary of the The Type Directors Club, part of The One Club for Creativity.

Starting from humble beginnings with 20 members in New York, TDC serves a global audience of typographers, type designers and lettering artists around the world with dozens of engaging online events, the renowned Type Drives Culture annual conference, and the profession’s most prestigious awards competitions.

Take a look at the platform here.

The F*word

Posted on by mareneyra

“Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?” With their legendary 1989 poster, the activist group Guerrilla Girls drew attention in New York City to the fact that although women are a popular motif in art, very few female artists are exhibited in museums, galleries, and art institutions. For more than 30 years, the internationally known collective from the USA have been dedicating themselves to humorous, enlightening, and reproachful works that uncover sexism, racism, and discrimination as well as the abuse of power and rampant corruption in the art world. For the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (MK&G), the Guerrilla Girls are now developing a work that will take a critical look at the museum’s own collection. In the exhibition The F*word — Guerrilla Girls and Feminist Graphic Design at the MK&G, the collective’s posters will form the starting point for a group show encompassing some 500 works dating from 1870 to the present day.

The F*word

Where?
MKG Hamburg
Steintorplatz
D-20099 Hamburg

When?
02/17—09/17/2023

Opening Hours:
Tue.–Sun., 10 a.m.–6 p.m.
Thu. 10 a.m.–9 p.m.

14.–, reduced 8.– Euro
Free entrance each first Thursday of the month
Free entrance for people under 18 years

The Lexend Project

Posted on by Tessa Breuer

WPP creative company Superunion, in collaboration with Dr. Bonnie Shaver-Troup, typographers David Berlow and Santiago Orozco, and Google Fonts, has evolved Lexend, a legacy font system, originally developed by Dr. Bonnie Shaver-Troup and designer Thomas Jokin in 2019, to change how the world reads. Lexend fonts are created to reduce visual stress and improve reading performance, with particularly useful implications for those with dyslexia.

The Lexend Project is a one-of-a-kind collaboration between Dr. Bonnie Shaver-Troup (Founder of Lexend), Dave Crossland (Google Fonts), Thomas Jockin (Type Designer), Linnea Lundquist (Type Designer), Santiago Orozco (Type Designer), David Berlow (Type Designer and Founder of Font Bureau), Héctor Gómez (Type Designer), Rosalie Wagner (Type Designer), Jeromy Lohmann (Head of Brand at CosmosDirekt) and Superunion.

By creating an open-access, variable typographic system through Google Fonts that can be easily accessed globally and on any digital device, the partnership is helping to make reading accessible and easy for everyone; reducing the stigma around dyslexia and improving opportunities for hundreds of millions of people worldwide. According to the European Dyslexia Association, between 9 and 12% of the global population are thought to have dyslexia, regardless of culture or language.

Led by Dr Bonnie Shaver-Troup, an educational therapist and the founder of The Lexend Project, and supported by Dave Crossland/Google Fonts, Lexend fonts were rendered for Google Fonts in 2018, combining font software with academic-based research into type design. It pulls the most important typographic factors in reading-proficiency into a variable font that improves readers’ “Words Correct” per Minute score, the measure of reading fluency that calculates the number of words read out without mistakes in a set time.

Lexend first launched with a Regular weight, but now has expanded through the collaborative partnership to offer multiple weights and make it a variable font, usable across a wider range of formats. The range of thickness in the design of the font and the hyper expansion allows readers to customise their reading experience to suit their needs. Since Lexend launched on the Google Fonts platform, the font has had over 2 billion detected webviews, where the font was rendered on a website, and has been downloaded more than 500,000 times through Google Fonts.

The evolved Lexend font was adopted by CosmosDirekt, Germany’s leading digital insurer, as part of its new identity brand development programme, created by the Superunion team.

The Lexend Project
Watch a film about the project here
Download the font here

Klingspor Type Archive

Posted on by turbo type

Klingspor Type Archive is the new online platform of the Klingspor Museum, where the holdings of the former type foundry Gebr. Klingspor in Offenbach, Germany, are made digitally accessible.

The new catalog offers interested parties expanded access to the internationally sought-after archive as well as usability that is independent of prior and specialist knowledge. Filled with historical material is additionally contextualized via links, short articles, research projects, and the addition of contemporary design. The website was initiated and designed by the two HfG graduates Laura Brunner and Leonie Martin (together they are forming the design studio turbo type). Numerous opportunities are offered for unintentional browsing, but also for targeted searches. In keeping with the foundry’s work, the website’s interface is rounded off by a font family exclusively designed for the digital archive. The database set up especially for this project will be gradually filled in the coming year.

So for the visual experience just take a look at the Klingspor Type Archive every now and then—and at the analog archive in Offenbach anyway!

Slanted Winter Break 22/23

Posted on by Clara Weinreich

From December 23rd we will be taking our annual winter break to recharge our batteries and tackle many new projects in the new year full of energy! From January 4th, 2023, we will be back in person for you. Please note that from now until January 4th, 2023, there will be no support from the Slanted Shop (subscriptions included) and shipping will take a little longer than usual. In the meantime, we will be happy to take your orders—and this is especially worthwhile, because we need more space in our warehouse and offer selected magazines and special editions starting at €5.– until 12/31/2022 (online only, as long as stock lasts). First come, first served 😉

We would like to take this opportunity to thank our readers, media partners, supporters, cooperation partners, friends, editorial staff, and all contributors who make Slanted in all its facets possible. This year has been so incredible for us with all the wonderful book and magazine releases. Many of them have already won awards, and some have been reprinted or are out of stock. In addition, we moved the office into an old factory building at the docks in Karlsruhe.

A big thank you from the bottom of our hearts!

At the same time, we had to face many challenges: Exploding paper prices and production costs, lack of resources, incredible postage costs for worldwide shipping and more. We work every day to make our publications available worldwide and to keep prices acceptable to the reader. A task that is not always easy …

As we scroll through our social media channels, it makes us very happy to see how you, our readers and community, celebrate our work and become a part of it yourselves. That’s why we’ve collected some impressions of the past year here—these make us always smile!

We wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Your Slanted Team

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